Chandra Release - June 15, 2025

Visual Description: The Infinity Galaxy

A pair of distant galaxies that form the rough shape of an infinity symbol seen at about a 45-degree angle. Two overlapping, fuzzy rings with brighter blue patches are at the upper right and lower left. At the center of each ring is a bright yellow blob, which are the nuclei of each galaxy. These structures are seen in infrared data from the James Webb Space Telescope. Where the two rings overlap on the left side, there is a mottled green patch of glowing gas midway between the two yellow nuclei. It is offset slightly to the left. A cloud of purple passes between the two nuclei, extending over parts of each nuclei and toward the outer edges of the galaxies in both directions. This purple cloud shows X-rays seen with the Chandra X-ray Observatory.